Heathcliff at the Supreme Court

Jenny Colgan talks about her passion for reading in The Independent:

I don't understand it, and never have. By any definition of the word, I'm a bookworm. I read while brushing my teeth. Going to the loo. In the bath. Having breakfast. Breastfeeding. I read on trains, planes and occasionally while driving in heavy traffic. I have two library cards and Amazon Prime. And I will read anything; absolutely anything. I will read cereal packets, Narnia, Blyton, the Brontës, Dickens, Neil Gaiman, Jilly Cooper, Richard Feynman; George MacDonald Fraser; Vikram Seth; Michel Faber; Brian Masters; Agatha Christie, Chekov; Hunter S Thompson; Douglas Adams; Lee Child, T S Eliot, Antony Beevor; Heat, Viz, The New Yorker. I will read high, low and the Richard and Judy list in between. All that matters to me is that it's good.

Geeks of Doom insists on the Wuthering Heights-Twilight connections:

Eclipse, the third book in author Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular vampire series Twilight, has unexpectedly given a major boost to the classic novel Wuthering Heights. (...)
In Eclipse, Bella references the Brontë novel several times, comparing her relationship with her vampire love Edward to that of Heathcliff and Catherine from Wuthering Heights, quoting the part of the classic novel where Catherine talks about Heathcliff: “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
Like Catherine, Bella cannot be with her one true love. Both couples have obstacles in the way of their happiness: Catherine and Heathcliff are separated by socioeconomic factors, while the vampire Edward won’t endanger his human love Bella by being with her, yet he also won’t turn her into a vampire to protect her and allow them to truly be together forever.
I understand why Wuthering Heights would hold a particular interest to the teenaged Bella, since both loves are intense and melodramatic. I do find it interesting though that of all the novels the Meyer could have picked to be Bella’s favorite she chose one where the characters are some of the most selfish and indecent people in literature. Yes, Catherine and Heathcliff have an unrequited love, but they’re also highly unlikable characters who treat everyone else in the book like shit. They don’t care who else they hurt, as long as they get what they want. The reason they weren’t together had to do ultimately with Catherine’s selfishness, whereas Edward thinks being apart from Bella is a way of protecting her.
It’s hard to even root for Catherine and Heathcliff to be happy together because they really don’t deserve happiness! The only reason why you’d want them to be together is because these two wretches deserve each other. They are so far from Edward and Bella moralistically that I question whether Bella — a good-natured person — would really identify herself with Catherine, and whether she’d compare Edward — as good-natured as a vampire can get — to someone like Heathcliff.
Either way, Wuthering Heights is an excellent book, well worth the read whether you love Twilight or not, so I’m happy to see its resurgence in popularity with a whole new generation. (Empress Eve)

Another Heathcliff lookalike is Lord Phillips, first president of the newly-created UK Supreme Court, according to The Guardian:

Back in 1995, the Lawyer magazine asked veteran court reporters to assess the leading players in the Maxwell case. The judgment on Mr Justice Phillips was "very sharp and incisive – not one to be bullied by counsel. A Heathcliff lookalike, he has state-of-the-art technology at his fingertips and cracks on at a good pace. He is widely tipped for promotion to the Court of Appeal." (Andrew Anthony)

Canwest News explores the biography of the author Tessa McWatt:

She studied English at Queen's University and later the University of Toronto where her master's thesis - contrasting the worlds of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea - emphasized one of her obsessions, the dilemma of the outsider in society. (Jamie Portman)

The Orange County Register describes a visit to Hay-on-Wye:

I came unprepared my first time to Hay. I thought I would stop for an hour or so on my way from the Cotswolds to Northern Wales. Bad decision. Several hours later I left with my arms groaning with old guidebooks and aviation encyclopedias, while my wife toted a half-dozen garden guides and fresh-but-used replacements for her worn-out copies of Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters back home. (Gary A. Warner)

K-Romances posts about Wuthering Heights (in Portuguese) and Sharon Owens is watching Jane Eyre 1983.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights